US4837528A - Microwave phase shifter - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a phase shifter composed of a waveguide in which ferromagnetic material is disposed along at least one plane extending in the direction of wave propagation and parallel to the electrical high frequency field, with this ferromagnetic material being exposed to a static magnetic field oriented parallel to the electrical field.
- Such a ferrite phase shifter employed in a phase shift circulator is disclosed in German Patent No. 2,414,939.C2.
- the ferromagnetic material is disposed, in the form of strips extending parallel to the longitudinal axis of the waveguide, along the interior sides of two opposing waveguide walls.
- the ferrite strips of this ferrite phase shifter on which German Patent No. 2,414,939.C2 is based, are designed to have a certain composition of materials suitable for the transmission of high frequency signals in high power pulses, the phase shifter is not suitable for the transmission of high frequency fields at very high constant power since the heat generated in view of the relatively high forward attenuation (about 0.3 dB) can no longer be dissipated.
- phase shifter having ferromagnetic material with such a shape that it forms a plurality of regions in space which extend in the direction of the applied static magnetic field from one waveguide wall to the opposite waveguide wall.
- the phase shifter Due to the configuration of the ferromagnetic material in the phase shifter according to the invention, the phase shifter has a very high breakthrough resistance, thus enabling it to be operated at extremely high power.
- the configuration of the ferromagnetic material according to the invention additionally permits the dissipation of large amounts of heat, which protects the ferromagnetic material against thermal destruction. This applies primarily for the finely structured configuration of the ferromagnetic material because it ensures a particularly good heat transfer to the heat dissipating dielectric material.
- FIG. 1 is a plan view of a phase shifter circulator.
- FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view, taken along line A-A of FIG. 1, through a waveguide arm acting as a phase shifter in the phase shifter circulator.
- FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of a waveguide arm of a phase shifter circulator in which the ferromagnetic material has a different structure than shown in FIG. 1.
- FIG. 4 is a plan view of one waveguide arm of a phase shifter circulator in which ferromagnetic rods have different diameters.
- the phase shifter circulator shown in FIG. 1 is composed in a known manner of a magic T waveguide junction 1 having two waveguide arms 2 and 3 configured as ferrite phase shifters and having a 3 dB coupler 4 connected to both waveguide arms 2 and 4.
- the operation is as follows.
- phase shifting waveguide arms 2 and 3 are premagnetized in such a way that the high frequency fields passing through them exhibit a mutual phase shift of 90° at phase shifter output ports 2b and 3b.
- the connected 3 dB coupler 4 combines the two high frequency fields present at phase shifter output ports 2b and 3b so that the high frequency energy fed in at port 1a is available in its entirety at port 4a, aside from losses occurring within the arrangement.
- a high frequency energy is applied to port 4a of 3 dB coupler 4, its field appears in equal parts at both ports 2b and 3b, but with a mutual phase shift of 90°. Due to the phase shifting effect of the two arms 2 and 3, the two high frequency fields reach ports 2a and 3a of magic T 1 in phase opposition. Both high-frequency fields are superposed within magic T 1 and the high frequency energy originally fed into 3 db coupler 4 is finally available at port 1b of magic T 1. In a similar manner, high frequency energy fed into port 1b of the magic T 1 will be finally recombined at port 4b of 3 dB coupler 4. And high frequency energy fed into port 4b of the 3 dB coupler will be finally recombined at port 1a of magic T 1.
- phase shifter circulator In order to operate the phase shifter circulator shown in FIG. 1 at very high power (approximately 100 kW to 2000 kW), the nature of the phase shifters is quite important and here particularly the configuration of the ferromagnetic material disposed in the waveguides.
- the ferromagnetic material in phase shifting waveguide arms 2 and 3, respectively, is shaped into a plurality of rods 5 which extend parallel to the narrow sides of the waveguide from one waveguide wall to the opposite one. All ferromagnetic rods 5 are oriented parallel to the electric high frequency field propagating in the waveguide and to an externally applied static magnetic field. Ferrite rods 5 are spaced from one narrow side of the waveguide at a distance which corresponds to approximately 0.2 times the width of the waveguide. In deviation from the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, such ferromagnetic rods may be disposed at equal distances from each of the two narrow waveguide sides.
- the ferromagnetic rods 5 extend, without interruption by some other type of dielectric material, over the entire height of the waveguide, undesirable excess field intensities are precluded. This results in high breakthrough resistance of the phase shifter so that it is suitable for the transmission of very high power.
- a large cooling area is created, producing extremely favorable conditions for the dissipation of the heat generated in ferromagnetic rods 5.
- a very low loss coolant e.g. a fluid such as air or some other suitable gas or a dielectric liquid, flowing around ferromagnetic rods 5, very large quantities of heat can be dissipated in a simple matter.
- FIG. 1 shows two embodiments for ways in which ferromagnetic rods 5 can be subjected to a cooling gas or cooling liquid.
- waveguide arm 2 a cross-sectional view A-A of which is shown in FIG. 2, the ferromagnetic rods 5 are surrounded individually or in groups by dielectric hollow cylinders 6 which extend, like ferromagnetic rods 5, over the entire height of the waveguide. Cylinders 6 are sealed at the interior sides of the waveguide walls by gaskets 25. Through openings 7 in a wall of the waveguide, a gas or liquid is introduced into these dielectric hollow cylinders 6 and is discharged again through openings 8 in the opposite waveguide wall.
- the magnetic system which produces the static magnetic field for ferromagnetic rods 5 is composed of pole pieces 9 and 10 disposed on both waveguide walls above and below rods 5 and of permanent magnets 11 and 12 disposed thereabove as well as a yoke 13 to close the magnetic circuit.
- pole pieces 9 and 10 of the magnetic system which cover openings 7 and 8, are provided with intake and discharge channels 14 and 15, respectively.
- Pole pieces 9 and 10 are sealed to the walls of waveguide arm 2 by gaskets 27.
- the openings 7 and 8 in the waveguide walls are dimensioned that they do not permit the high frequency field to pass through.
- all ferromagnetic rods 5 may also be accommodated together in an elongate dielectric container 18 installed parallel to a narrow side of the waveguide, as is the case of waveguide arm 3 (see FIG. 1).
- a single rod 5 is disposed in the cylinder 6 closest to port 2a, two rods 5 are disposed in the next cylinder 6, and thereafter three rods 5 are disposed in each cylinder 6 until the approach of phase shifter port 2b. That is, the number of ferromagnetic rods 5 disposed in a dielectric hollow cylinder 6 increases from hollow cylinder to hollow cylinder towards the interior of waveguide arm 2.
- An alternative way to gradually change the quantity of ferromagnetic material would be to decrease the spacing between ferromagnetic rods 5 in the direction toward the interior of the waveguide as in the embodiment of waveguide arm 3.
- FIG. 4 illustrates a waveguide arm 3' of a magic T waveguide junction 1', between ports 3'a and 3'b. This thickness of ferromagnetic rods 5', which are disposed in dielectric container 18', increases toward the interior as shown.
- the dielectric container 18 tapers toward the ports 3a and 3b, in addition to the density of the ferromagnetic material therein being graduated. This tapering of dielectric container 18 may occur either continuously as illustrated or in steps.
- dielectric hollow cylinders 5 equipped with ferromagnetic rods 5 in waveguide arm 2 are arranged at a spacing of approximately a quarter wavelength, particularly broadbanded and low-reflection characteristics result for the phase shifter.
- the ferromagnetic material of the phase shifter is shaped into rods 5.
- an elongate ferromagnetic body 20 provided with bores 21 extending parallel to the static magnetic field may be arranged in a waveguide arm 19 along at least one plane parallel to a narrow side of the waveguide.
- These bores 21 communicate with openings 22 and 23 in the waveguide walls to permit passage of a cooling fluid (gas or liquid) through ferromagnetic body 20.
- the bores 21 again define elongated regions which extend from one waveguide wall to the opposite wall, but in this case the elongated regions contain the cooling fluid and are surrounded by ferrite material.
- phase shifter are suitable for use in a phase shifter circulator operated with extremely high high-frequency power as shown above in connection with FIG. 1.
- the above described phase shifter circulator can operate in a frequency range of 250 MHz to 18 GHz.
- phase shifter circulator which operates at 500 MHz is dimensioned as follows:
- Both waveguide arms 2 and 3 have a wide side of 457.2 mm and a narrow side of 228.6 mm. In some applications it will be advantageous to reduce the narrow side (e.g. 114.3 mm).
- the ferromagnetic rods 5 are shown in FIG. 1 and the bores 21 in the ferromagnetic body 20 as shown in FIG. 3 have a diameter in the range of 2 to 4 mm.
- the spacing between the rods 5 in waveguide arm 3 and the spacing between the bores 21 is in the range 2 to 4 mm.
- the dielectric cylinders 6 as shown in FIG. 1 have a diameter of approximately one eighth of the waveguide wavelength and they are spaced from one another at about one quarter of the wavelength.
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US5013997A (en) * | 1990-01-02 | 1991-05-07 | General Electric Company | Liquid cooled, high power, ferrite phase shifter for phased array antennas |
US6985050B2 (en) | 2000-04-20 | 2006-01-10 | Paratek Microwave, Inc. | Waveguide-finline tunable phase shifter |
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